I watched the first two innings at home on the laptop last night waiting for Pronk to win the game. I thought the live broadcasts were blacked out -- plus I did not pay for the post-season package (unless it was included in what I bought back in March, but why would MLB do that?).

I hope you get it also RS. From the Red Sox press pass for ALDS game 3 - IN ALDS PLAY, a team has taken a 2-0 lead 15 times, including both Boston andCleveland in 2007…On only 4 occasions entering this season, has the team with a 2-0 lead dropped the next 3 games and the Series: Yankees to Seattle in 1995;Cleveland to Boston in 1999; Oakland to the Yankees in 2001; and Oakland toBoston in 2003…The team with a 2-0 lead has won the series in 3 games 7 times.

From today's press conference with Joe Torre - Q. What did you see from Alex at the plate? JOE TORRE: Well, put Alex in the group with everybody else. I don't think it's fair to single him out. We got three hits. We scored, what, four runs in two games and three of them were home runs. So we certainly need to do a better job of doing what we've been doing most of the year. But Alex, again, he gets up there in situations. Sometimes they're not going to pitch to him, sometimes they have to pitch to him, and they're making pretty good pitches on him. He's fouling off his pitch and stuff like that. I think everybody is trying a little bit too hard. So hopefully, we'll come back here tomorrow and have a little fun with it.

The MFY's score 4 runs in Cleveland and 3 were home runs, but its all about A-rod.

Maybe they don't have blackout restrictions for Canada in the playoffs...

I thought the fine print I read named Canada as well as the US, etc. as being blacked out during live games. Plus MLB did not include "watch games live" as a bonus for signing up. It says you can watch archived games.

I think the last time I bought MLB-TV and cared about the playoffs (2005) if you had bought the package at the beginning of the season it continued through the playoffs. Of course, that's two years and several changes to the price structure ago, but there is a precedent.

I'm with you, Ish. I'm going to get twitchy if everyone sweeps and there's no baseball. However, the only non-sweep I can get behind though is a challenge from the Phillies, so I'll be rooting for them tonight, just in support of more baseball. Otherwise, I don't care so much. The only NL team I was really into was the Cubs. The rest of them, well, it just doesn't matter to me which one we beat later on!

Well, not so much. The final out of the World Series gives you that sense of finality that the end of the LDS can't give. You know there's no more baseball. It's closure, almost. Sucks, but it is what it is.

These days are the worst, just waiting around. It helps to have lots of things to do.

I'm getting sick of these Sonic commercials! The food always looks really good, and their advertising is working on me, but the nearest Sonic is 40 miles west of Philadelphia. That's about 450 miles from here. :(

I want tomorrow to be the final game at Yankee Stadium in 2007. BOS/MFY ALCS would be very bad.

The people who think the Red Sox and Yankees NEED to play each other in the ALCS are telling each other that the Yankees are the best team in baseball, as always, and the Red Sox need to go through the Yankees to show everyone they are the best.

It was true in 2003, it was true in 2004. This year it is much, much different. The best team in baseball this year has been the Boston Red Sox, and they don't need validation by playing and beating the Yankees in the LCS. Their record is their validation.

There's a SOSH thread on the subject, but I'm definitely in the pro-sweep camp. (No one can seriously hope that the MFYs advance, but at least some hope that they'll bang up the Indians a bit more on their way out.)

with the Indians marching out Westbrook and Byrd, it can turn around quick.

I'm with ya on Westbrook. I haven't seen him recently to judge whether he can beat the Yankees or not today, but Paul Byrd is a soft-tossing control artist. Some teams will hit him well, most will not. He'll throw strikes and keep you off-balance. If Westbrook doesn't get them today, I say Byrd does tomorrow.

And hey, if Byrd can't beat the Yankees, there is this guy named Sabathia in store for Wednesday - back in Cleveland.